Re: incremental search and Umlauts

[Michael Piotrowski]

On 2007-04-17, "Andreas Goesele" <goesele@hfph.mwn.de> wrote:

> When I do an incremental search in xemacs' gnus' summary window and
> use umlauts I get an error message (e.g. adiaeresis not defined) and
> the search doesn't.
>
> Some time ago I found/got a tip for simple key combination which would
> enable the use of umlauts during incremental search.

I don't know about a keyboard command, but I just played around a bit,
and the following code seems to work:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(mapc (lambda (key)
        (define-key isearch-mode-map key 'isearch-printing-char))
      '([(adiaeresis)] [(odiaeresis)] [(udiaeresis)] [(ssharp)]
        [(Adiaeresis)] [(Odiaeresis)] [(Udiaeresis)] [(section)]))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The problem seems to be that non-ASCII characters are not classified as
"printing" when using isearch in Gnus (even though it works in other
modes).  Note that you may still not find all occurrences of a certain
character in the summary buffer; this is likely caused by encoding
differences (Latin 1 vs. Latin 9, etc.).

HTH

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Michael Piotrowski, M.A.                               <mxp@dynalabs.de>
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